Open AccessTowards optimization of surveillance resistance to antituberculosis drug resistance
Author(s) -
Mario Raviglione,
Marcos Espinal
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.05.10.00034-en
Subject(s) - public health , tuberculosis , drug resistance , medicine , resistance (ecology) , drug resistant tuberculosis , environmental health , mycobacterium tuberculosis , biology , pathology , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology
In the past decade, strengthening tuberculosis (TB) surveillance has become a public health priority in Europe. In western Europe, TB case rates slowed their previous decline, but in eastern Europe dramatic increases, often with doubling of rates, were re